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How Quantum Dots Supercharge Farming, Medicine and Solar, Too
What if you could grow vegetables in half the time? What if a surgeon could see cancerous cells throughout an entire operation? What if solar panels could become...
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China: Police sing Facial-Recognition Sunglasses
The Chinese government is equipping its police with real-time facial-recognition sunglasses to instantly locate criminals in crowds.
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How Nuclear Weapons Research Revealed New Climate Threats
After atmospheric scientist Ivana Cvijanovic began pushing a computerized climate simulation to its limits, she noticed a disturbing result: as Arctic sea ice nearly...
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Mind the Gap: This Researcher Steals Data With Noise, Light, and Magnets
The field of cybersecurity is obsessed with preventing and detecting breaches, finding every possible strategy to keep hackers from infiltrating your digital inner...
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NASA Tests Atomic Clock For Deep Space Navigation
In deep space, accurate timekeeping is vital to navigation, but many spacecraft lack precise timepieces on board.
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Inside North Korea's Hacker Army
In most respects, Jong Hyok looks like any other middle-aged male tech worker you might see on the skyscraper-shadowed streets of Seoul's Gangnam district: smartphone...
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Can Computers Learn Like Humans?
The world of artificial intelligence has exploded in recent years. Computers armed with AI do everything from drive cars to pick movies you'll probably like.
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AI Just Learned How to Boost the Brain's Memory
When it comes to black boxes, there is none more black than the human brain. Our gray matter is so complex, scientists lament, that it can't quite understand itself...
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Newly Discovered Form of Water Ice Is 'really Strange'
Scientists have confirmed a form of water that is simultaneously solid and liquid. It is the latest advance in the study of water, a seemingly simple substance...
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Supercomputing More Light Than Heat
Researchers have used the eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment to gain access to more than 975,000 compute hours on the Maverick supercomputing...
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New C Riverside Research Advances Spintronics Technology
Researchers have advanced spintronics via new methods to detect signals from spintronic components made of inexpensive metals and silicon.
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Quantum Algorithms Struggle Against Old Foe: Clever Computers
The quest for "quantum supremacy" – unambiguous proof that a quantum computer does something faster than an ordinary computer – has paradoxically led to a boom...
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New Nasa Space Sensors to Address Key Earth Questions
Why is the Arctic warming faster than the rest of the planet?
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The Era of Quantum Computing Is Here. Outlook: Cloudy
After decades of heavy slog with no promise of success, quantum computing is suddenly buzzing with almost feverish excitement and activity.
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How to Control a Machine sing Your Mind
Bill Kochevar's life was changed, seemingly irrevocably, when he was paralysed from the shoulders down following a cycling accident nearly a decade ago.
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If Workers Slack Off, the Wristband Will Know. (and Amazon Has a Patent For It.)
What if your employer made you wear a wristband that tracked your every move, and that even nudged you via vibrations when it judged that you were doing something...
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MIT Enlisting Hundreds of Scientists in Effort to Make Computers Think More Like People
MIT has launched the MIT Intelligence Quest, an agenda to coordinate the efforts of MIT's many experts to train computers to think in a more human-like manner. ...
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A Small-Scale Demonstration Shows How Quantum Computing Could Revolutionize Data Analysis
An experiment by researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China used quantum computers to calculate Betti numbers. The work "suggests that data...
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China Wants to Make the Chips that Will Add AI to Any Gadget
In an office at Tsinghua University in Beijing, a computer chip is crunching data from a nearby camera, looking for faces stored in a database.
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